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THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
BOX 12
2016–2017 MARGARITA LIZÁRRAGA MEDAL
The FAO Margarita Lizárraga Medal is awarded every
two years to a person or organization that has served
with distinction in the promotion and application of the
Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. In 2016–
2017, the award was given to the Commission for the
Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR) in recognition of its outstanding, practical,
tangible, sustainable and catalytic contribution to the
conservation and management of marine living
resources in the convention area (the Southern Ocean).
In particular, CCAMLR was recognized for its
precautionary and ecosystem-based approach to
balancing environmental conservation with the rational
utilization of resources. This achievement is considered
as a model for similar initiatives and could have a
catalytic effect on other RFBs. The CCAMLR Secretariat
is based in Tasmania, Australia.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presents the Margarita Lizárraga Medal
to Monde Mayekiso, Chair of CCAMLR
decision-making based on “best available
knowledge”, including both scientific and
traditional knowledge, with promotion of risk
assessment and risk management, and
recognition that in the absence of detailed
scientific knowledge decisions must still be
taken;
focus on sustainabilit y issues that need
attention, identified and prioritized through a
formal participator y process (e.g. risk
assessment);
reliance on a formal management plan
developed for a specific area or system with
operationally defined boundaries;
an adaptive management process that includes
mechanisms for feedback loops at different
time scales to adjust the management plan
based on past and present obser vations and
experiences;
building on existing management institutions
and practices.
In addition, the g uidelines in support of
implementation of the Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries are all relevant to the
application of EA F/EA A.
Key features of the ecosystem approach to
fisheries and aquaculture
The key features of the EA F/EA A framework, as
proposed in the FAO g uidelines for both fisheries
and aquaculture, are characteristic of a
participator y risk-based management process
adapted to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors
and include:
wide stakeholder participation at all levels of
planning and implementation;
comprehensive and explicit consideration of all
key components of a fisher y or aquaculture
system (ecological, social, economic and
governance) as well as external drivers (e.g.
climate change);
reconciliation of environmental/conser vation
and social/economic management objectives,
including explicit consideration of trade-offs
between them;
Full implementation of EA F/EA A entails
establishing a management cycle that includes
initial planning, implementation and feedback
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